Bucic Posted October 8, 2013 Posted October 8, 2013 (edited) The Frictional Games studio is cooking up a new title. No haunted castles this time and something that surely brings many inspirations and connections in mind Edited November 12, 2015 by Bucic F-5E simpit cockpit dimensions and flight controls Kill the Bloom - shader glow mod Poor audio Doppler effect in DCS [bug] Trees - huge performance hit especially up close
Bucic Posted September 20, 2015 Author Posted September 20, 2015 (edited) Just a heads up. It's available for pre-purchase now at a discount. That aside, it is actually available in DRM-free version on GOG.com! http://www.gog.com/game/soma https://www.youtube.com/user/frictionalgames/videos http://thewayfaringdreamer.com/the-wonderfully-eerie-world-of-soma/ Man, I didn't believe this project will succeed... Edited September 20, 2015 by Bucic F-5E simpit cockpit dimensions and flight controls Kill the Bloom - shader glow mod Poor audio Doppler effect in DCS [bug] Trees - huge performance hit especially up close
Bucic Posted October 3, 2015 Author Posted October 3, 2015 (edited) Sorry for bumping this thread again but... man... I've finished the game now and I could almost feel guilty if I don't pitch this game a bit here as I'm aware there's a lot of no-bull sci-fi fans here. What is SOMA? SOMA is a really, really, really solid sci-fi game and a non-cliche first-person horror by the creators of the Amnesia series. It even comes with a (in the style of the short included in the original post). It's the kind of game that stays with you. I recommend it so strongly that I'd even advise you to watch a playthrough without a commentary if you can't, for any reason, play the game. To put it into perspective, I was playing SOMA instead of DCS World 1.5 Open Beta even though I have all the hardware I need. :D That should convince you. SOMA is very spoiler-sensitive! A glimpse on the comments under a trailer on YouTube and it's all done. Same with steam community forums and other places not moderated for spoilers. Same for many of the reviews out there. Not to mention some of them raise silly concerns that may stick with you even though they are close to baseless. Honestly, I recommend you don't read or watch ANYTHING about the game. Just watch some of my screenshots. If you really must though............ here's a mild spoiler only teaser material compiled by me. /SOMA/archive/615b.U/ structuregel.vid - YouTube SOMA - Environments Trailer - YouTube SOMA - Gameplay Trailer - YouTube ONLY UP TO 10 minutes 00 seconds !!! The above are literally the only official media that contain only minor spoilers. Anything else and... PS. The graphics at the beginning of the game look very bad. Endure it (not included on the screenshots). Edited November 12, 2015 by Bucic F-5E simpit cockpit dimensions and flight controls Kill the Bloom - shader glow mod Poor audio Doppler effect in DCS [bug] Trees - huge performance hit especially up close
BackboneOne Posted October 4, 2015 Posted October 4, 2015 fantastic game! worth every minute out of cockpit :yes: MB: Asus ROG Strix Z390-E \ CPU: i9-9900K NZXT Kraken X52\ DDR4: 3000MHz G.SKILL Trident Z Royal 32Gb RAM \ VID: MSI Nvidia RTX4070 12GB \ MON: Samsung ue49ks8000 49'', Lilliput 8'' x2 CNTRL: Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog \ Saitek Combat Rudder pedals \ TrackIR 5 \ Thrustmaster MFD Cougar Pack
PiedDroit Posted October 4, 2015 Posted October 4, 2015 Oh it's been in my wishlist for a while, didn't buy it yet, will do for sure, my game backlog is quite big :thumbup: (Currently replaying SS1 with the enhanced controls fom GOG :music_whistling:)
cichlidfan Posted October 4, 2015 Posted October 4, 2015 Just bought it to take on a trip next week. ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero, i7-6700K, Noctua NH-D14 Cooler, Crucial 32GB DDR4 2133, Samsung 950 Pro NVMe 256GB, Samsung EVO 250GB & 500GB SSD, 2TB Caviar Black, Zotac GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme 8GB, Corsair HX1000i, Phillips BDM4065UC 40" 4k monitor, VX2258 TouchScreen, TIR 5 w/ProClip, TM Warthog, VKB Gladiator Pro, Saitek X56, et. al., MFG Crosswind Pedals #1199, VolairSim Pit, Rift CV1 :thumbup:
Bucic Posted October 4, 2015 Author Posted October 4, 2015 Just bought it to take on a trip next week. It's going to be a hell of a trip, I tell you :D I've just glimpsed onto the SOMA wiki and the SOMA info portal (full of spoilers!) and I can already tell I'll be doing another playthrough to check some additional stuff. If I dont't find the time, there's going to be a lot of interesting stuff for me to read, a book worth of stuff... F-5E simpit cockpit dimensions and flight controls Kill the Bloom - shader glow mod Poor audio Doppler effect in DCS [bug] Trees - huge performance hit especially up close
cichlidfan Posted October 4, 2015 Posted October 4, 2015 It's going to be a hell of a trip, I tell you :D Well, I'll be in hotel, in a small town, with a full casino about 200yds away. However, I don't gamble like that, so this should suffice for entertainment. :) ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero, i7-6700K, Noctua NH-D14 Cooler, Crucial 32GB DDR4 2133, Samsung 950 Pro NVMe 256GB, Samsung EVO 250GB & 500GB SSD, 2TB Caviar Black, Zotac GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme 8GB, Corsair HX1000i, Phillips BDM4065UC 40" 4k monitor, VX2258 TouchScreen, TIR 5 w/ProClip, TM Warthog, VKB Gladiator Pro, Saitek X56, et. al., MFG Crosswind Pedals #1199, VolairSim Pit, Rift CV1 :thumbup:
Yurgon Posted October 5, 2015 Posted October 5, 2015 Dammit I'm still not through with Styx and now this (while, as previously mentioned, DCS 1.5 was also just released). Stop promoting games like that! :D
Bucic Posted October 5, 2015 Author Posted October 5, 2015 Dammit I'm still not through with Styx and now this (while, as previously mentioned, DCS 1.5 was also just released). Stop promoting games like that! :D Let me make it up to you. If you have limited time, drop Styx for SOMA. SOMA is a an entirely different animal. And it's shorter. Twice as short I think. F-5E simpit cockpit dimensions and flight controls Kill the Bloom - shader glow mod Poor audio Doppler effect in DCS [bug] Trees - huge performance hit especially up close
Bucic Posted October 5, 2015 Author Posted October 5, 2015 BTW, SOMA is well opgimized.GF 660Ti gives 60 FPS at 1080p at maxed out settings. If you don't get this kind of performance, there's an issue. Max the game out and disable the in-game vsync option for starters, then retest and report. F-5E simpit cockpit dimensions and flight controls Kill the Bloom - shader glow mod Poor audio Doppler effect in DCS [bug] Trees - huge performance hit especially up close
sobek Posted October 5, 2015 Posted October 5, 2015 It's quite good, it's also scary as hell. :P Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives!
Bucic Posted October 5, 2015 Author Posted October 5, 2015 It's quite good, it's also scary as hell. :P I've been reading their blog for months now. There they discuss their research on immersion and other gameplay aspects. Players getting a heart attack is not of their concern clearly and they evidently have put their findings into SOMA to the last bit. An exemplary point: "Player's character death in horror games brings an undesirable relief to the player." Yep. This is Frictional Games :) F-5E simpit cockpit dimensions and flight controls Kill the Bloom - shader glow mod Poor audio Doppler effect in DCS [bug] Trees - huge performance hit especially up close
sobek Posted October 5, 2015 Posted October 5, 2015 LOL, i am too young and too fit to die from a heart attack playing, but too susceptible to its addictive nature to just quit. It's kind of the gamer's third circle of hell. :D Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives!
Bucic Posted October 5, 2015 Author Posted October 5, 2015 LOL, i am too young and too fit to die from a heart attack playing, but too susceptible to its addictive nature to just quit. It's kind of the gamer's third circle of hell. :D It would be was to quit if we were after action RPG or shooters. Their progress apart from graphics is close to zero while story-oriented games have come a long way. No to mention simulators. F-5E simpit cockpit dimensions and flight controls Kill the Bloom - shader glow mod Poor audio Doppler effect in DCS [bug] Trees - huge performance hit especially up close
Bucic Posted November 12, 2015 Author Posted November 12, 2015 (edited) I'm posting again because some of you may have confused the short film series titled Soma: Item <number> with the actual short film series released after the release of the game. It's Soma - transmissions 8 parts so far EDIT: There's also a lot nor to http://soma.wikia.com/wiki/Item_Documentations than I initially thought! Edited November 13, 2015 by Bucic F-5E simpit cockpit dimensions and flight controls Kill the Bloom - shader glow mod Poor audio Doppler effect in DCS [bug] Trees - huge performance hit especially up close
Yurgon Posted November 12, 2015 Posted November 12, 2015 BTW, SOMA is currently 15% off on Steam (until 16 November). But I gotta admit I have so many games in my pipeline I'll probably wait for the next sale.
Bucic Posted February 18, 2016 Author Posted February 18, 2016 https://www.humblebundle.com/books/scificlassics_bookbundle "Asimov, Zelazny, Clarke and other sci-fi greats!" F-5E simpit cockpit dimensions and flight controls Kill the Bloom - shader glow mod Poor audio Doppler effect in DCS [bug] Trees - huge performance hit especially up close
Bucic Posted April 5, 2016 Author Posted April 5, 2016 (edited) Sorry for soma-spamming but there's some good articles linked in the dev's recap http://frictionalgames.blogspot.com/2016/03/soma-6-months-later.html EDIT: spoilers! SOMA - Story Analysis (The Sad Story of Site Upsilon) - YouTube [ame] [/ame] EDIT: Edited April 12, 2016 by Bucic F-5E simpit cockpit dimensions and flight controls Kill the Bloom - shader glow mod Poor audio Doppler effect in DCS [bug] Trees - huge performance hit especially up close
Yurgon Posted April 5, 2016 Posted April 5, 2016 Huh! After I finished SOMA, I'd been promoting it in the What Video Game Are You Currently Playing? thread, but forgot about the dedicated thread. Dammit that game is scary as hell. It's also got an amazing story, and I just couldn't let go of it. If anything, the "monsters don't attack" mod should come with the game. At some point I was pretty annoyed by them and the game would work well without them, too. But I didn't install that mod and played through more or less hardcore. All things considered, it's one of the most memorable games I've played in a long time, definitely worth playing. :thumbup:
Bucic Posted April 13, 2016 Author Posted April 13, 2016 -40% at steam. F-5E simpit cockpit dimensions and flight controls Kill the Bloom - shader glow mod Poor audio Doppler effect in DCS [bug] Trees - huge performance hit especially up close
Bucic Posted May 11, 2016 Author Posted May 11, 2016 Soma daily deal https://www.humblebundle.com/store/soma?utm_source=humble_wishlist&utm_medium=wishlist_email&utm_campaign=wishlist_email_05_10_2016 And armikrog :) I'm not going to post any more deals from now on. By now everyone should have their sale channel of choice subscribed. F-5E simpit cockpit dimensions and flight controls Kill the Bloom - shader glow mod Poor audio Doppler effect in DCS [bug] Trees - huge performance hit especially up close
Bucic Posted October 27, 2016 Author Posted October 27, 2016 (edited) -50% on Humble and my final notice. It's too spammy to my taste :) Trivia: The voice actors for both Samuels and Amanda Ripley from Alien Isolation did voice acting in SOMA. A bonus interview! In The Games Of Madness: People of Frictional: David Satzinger http://frictionalgames.blogspot.com/2016/09/people-of-frictional-david-satzinger.html Edited October 27, 2016 by Bucic F-5E simpit cockpit dimensions and flight controls Kill the Bloom - shader glow mod Poor audio Doppler effect in DCS [bug] Trees - huge performance hit especially up close
Bucic Posted April 4, 2019 Author Posted April 4, 2019 Another heads-up for SOMA fans. You need to see the Love Death Robots anthology! The episodes vary in theme in an extreme way so obviously I don't mean all of the episodes. I won't point you to the exact ones as to not spoil anything. Also, you might wanna check out The Signal from Tolva with its lore book. It may look like a cartoonish shooter but... It's not anywhere near as deep or complex but still. F-5E simpit cockpit dimensions and flight controls Kill the Bloom - shader glow mod Poor audio Doppler effect in DCS [bug] Trees - huge performance hit especially up close
DoomEngine Posted April 4, 2019 Posted April 4, 2019 Can confirm about Love, Death, and Robots- loved every minute of it. Fans of the old Heavy Metal magazine will love it! :geek: [sIGPIC]http://img.wp.scn.ru/camms/ar/375/pics/3_31.jpg[/sIGPIC]
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